President Trump walked out of the meeting in which he was supposed to present his plan for the long-awaited $2 trillion infrastructure package.
The May 22nd meeting was to be the second in a round of talks between Congressional Democrats and President Trump about a massive infrastructure bill. During the first meeting just three weeks ago, the two sides agreed on a $2 trillion funding goal which was to go towards “roads, highways, bridges, tunnels and railroads, modernizing our air travel system, and expanding broadband access for our great farmers and rural America” according to a White House statement.
During that first meeting, President Trump agreed to present the group with his plan for where the $2 trillion would come from. Most Republican leaders have been doubling down of their support for public-private partnerships as a way to keep federal spending low. But that was likely a problem, as selling the right to toll roads to private companies is a controversial idea, and President Trump is on record as calling the old Infrastructure Plan which relied heavily on public-private partnerships “so stupid.”
No proposals on funding were shared before President Trump walked out of the meeting.
In a press conference immediately following his walkout, President Trump told reporters that he would not be able to work with Democrats while Congress is investigating him and his administration. Since Democrats are in control of the House, that effectively means that nothing will get done until at least after the 2020 election. Not even projects with bi-partisan support like infrastructure.
Source: freightwaves, nbcnews, usaherald
Sure, don’t explain why he stayed only 3 minutes. He said he would only work with the Democrats if they give up on the whole idea of trying to impeach him on the already known fake Russia conspiracy.
Oops, saw they mentioned the reason in the last comment.
I mean paragraph, but either way, the moderator can delete my comments.
You did good, don’t sweat it.
If you watch the Video Nancy Pelosi kept jabbering on about impeachment which pissed off Trump so don’t blame Trump, blame Nancy.
I support Trump. Just how are taxpayers suppose to support everyone and everything with tax dollars being taken out of their paycheck ? I wouldn’t approve anything else until the dems stop throwing money away trying to get something on him. Why work when your money is being thrown into such stupid things. Maybe investigate why, maybe dems are getting a cut of what the attorneys are being paid, there’s a hidden reason for it
You forgot to mention in your reporting that before meeting with the President, the House Speaker had just met with House Democrats, who want to impeach President Trump. After meeting withe the democrat group, the Speaker told reporters that the President was involved in a cover-up. Then went to meet the President. That is not the way to lead up to negotiations and the President is correct in knowing that the democratic leadership will not bargain in good faith.
I’m sure if this board wasn’t moderated, I’d be reading the same kind of political crap you hear CB warriors preaching.
The government as founded, was designed to be slow. People work out laws carefully, revise and revise, and make sure things are best for the people, not the government.
This government is practically deciding not to legislate at all. Blame who you want, it doesn’t matter, in the end, the People are losing.
Ya…it’s Trumps fault…how would you like it if you were hassled 24/7 for 2 1/2 years, investigated for 2 1/2 yea s, FOUND NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING, and then have these boneheads reject the findings of the investigation? YA..ME EITHER! I don’t blame him one bit. I would not try to hammer out a deal with some old battleaxe that just called me a crook on camera either! Go Trump!
The GOP & Trump gave 1.5 Trillion to the Wealthy, but they don’t have any money for the infrastructure. Go figure…
I want to know who is going to fix that foot deep pothole on I-71 South in the right lane between Verona Ky and The Love Stuff Store in Pendleton? I hope they take some of the two trillion and fix that tooth chipping, suspension destroying monster.
This was a well thought out plan by the democrats. Now they can go into the next election and blame all the ‘do nothing’ congress lack of action on Trump.
The best advice I can give is to put the president and all of congress on a leaky ship with no rudder and aim it east into the atlantic.
This is all a big soap opera for the masses. They won’t improve the infrastructure till the robo trucks start coming online. Trump pretends like he gives a damn . Then the dems “make Trump walk out” ??? . It’s like the fake wrestling, like Jesse Ventura said. All a big show. The politicians all (including Con man Don) know what the result will be. By the way, I guess the big meeting the con Don had with trucking companies last year was another big show, since now the “white house” is fast tracking robo trucks.
Self serving, non caring,both parties
Who don’t give a damn bout anything but theirselves,their office was not meant to be career pathes,20, 30 years too much,term limits,
All of them ought to show where their money come ,let’s see all of their,tax returns
Most of them have never had a private sector job, Isn’t that rig Pelosi, Schumer? But they want to talk down to the ones that have worked for all of their lives,and lecture us,SICK OF THEM ALL